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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Venetian dilemma
  name:
    name part: Rifkind, Carole.
  name:
    name part: Rifkind, Richard A.
    name part: 1930-
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Alexander Street Video.
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York, NY
    publisher: Filmakers Library
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (73 min.).
  abstract: With stunning imagery, The Venetian Dilemma portrays the fragile urban ecology of Venice besieged by 14 million tourists who far outnumber the local residents. By tracking four Venetians who are trying to make a life in this unique historic place, the themes of urban gentrification and tourist impact are raised--a problem not only for Venice but for many other urban areas. The thread of the film is debate among ordinary Venetians and their charismatic deputy mayor, Roberto D'Agostino, about the pros and cons of plans to diversify the city's economy by redeveloping a degraded industrial area and connecting it to the mainland by an underwater subway. Opponents of such plans doubt that the promised jobs will arrive, and believe that the subway will only serve to bring more tourists to Venice. Meanwhile, local residents face a daily struggle for a decent quality of life. Produce vendor Danilo Palmieri battles to maintain his livelihood; career woman and mother Michela Scibilia fights for day care; writer and environmentalist Paolo Lanapoppi campaigns against fast tourist-serving motorboats that are destroying the very foundations of Venice. The documentary celebrates what makes Venice distinctive historically, not only as a beautiful city, but one that fostered a "civilized" life style. Now, an untrammeled tourist industry has transformed it into little more than a staged urban theater, verging on a Disneyland. And the grand city-building schemes offer no guarantees that they will be the solution.
  target audience: For College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: produced by Carole Rifkind and Richard Rifkind.
  note: Previously published as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: English.
  note: Environmental Film Festival, Washington, D.C., 2005
  note: Green Film Festival, Seoul, 2005
  note: Hamptons International Film Festival, 2005
  note: National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting, 2005
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Documentary films
  subject:
    topic: City planning
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Venice
  subject:
    topic: Tourism
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Venice
  subject:
    topic: Gentrification
  subject:
    geographic: Venice (Italy)
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    geographic: Venice (Italy)
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Venice (Italy)
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme)
  subject:
    geographic: Venise (Italie)
    topic: Civilisation
  subject:
    geographic: Venise (Italie)
    topic: Administration
  subject:
    geographic: Venise (Italie)
    topic: Conditions sociales
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    topic: Documentary films
  subject:
    topic: Gentrification
  subject:
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Tourism
  subject:
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Venice
  classification: PN1200eb
  classification: 945.31
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Art and architecture in video
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20241201230522.5
    record identifier: in00005549622
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng